Improved mode of manufacturing halters



`UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HIRAM B. WARE, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA.

IMPROVED MODE OF MANUFACTURING HALTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,9 39, dated September 12, 1865.`

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM B. VARE, of Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa, have invented a new and usel'ul Improvement in Halters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description ofthe said invention.

The nature of my invention consists in using metallic slides instead of rings on the noseband, cheek-pieces, throat-latch, and throatstrap, which are marked on the drawing here- With inclosed as follows, to Wit:

A and O consist of a slide otl malleable iron inclosin gthecl1eek-pieces,also the throat-latch, at the proper angle-say, about seventy degrees.

B and D consist each of a T-slide of the same material inclosing the lower end of the cheek-pieces and the nose-hand at right angles.

E and F are straight slides of the same materal, E inclosing` the throat-latch and the upper end of the throat-strap and F inclosing the lower end of the throat-strap with the noseband passing through it at right angles, all the necessary fastenings on said slides to be rivets, as shown in the accompanying drawing.

What I claim in my invention is A halter made With clasps and rivets, substantially as herein shown and described.

H. B. WARE.

Witnesses:

G. MARBLE, WILLIAM H. STARR. 

